Lawyer Quotes - Page 30

• It's a game. We tax lawyers teach the rich how to play it so they can stay rich-and the IRS keeps changing the rules so we can keep getting rich teaching them.

  John Grisham

  Teaching, Games, Play

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• This bill would allow an employee to bring a claim against an employer decades after the alleged initial act of discrimination occurred. Trial lawyers, you can be sure, are salivating at this very prospect.

  Buck McKeon

  Trials, Bills, Discrimination

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• The only ones who will see an increase in pay are some of the trial lawyers who bring the cases.

  Orrin Hatch

  Trials, Pay, Discrimination

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• Our lawyers had their chat with the Supreme Court Justice, and promised to repast the chat to other members of the Supreme Court to find out whether they wanted to hear us out.

  Dashiell Hammett

  Justice, Court, Members

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• If the wind is blowing like stink and everything is working right, a twelve-meter sailboat can go eleven and a half or twelve miles an hour, the same speed at which a bond lawyer runs around the Cental Park Reservoir.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Running, Wind

  P.J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus”, p.159, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Funny, Humor, Law

  Oliver Goldsmith (1794). “The Citizen of the World Or Letters from a Chinese Philosopher, Residing in London, to His Friend in the East”, p.33

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• When I was at school, I wanted to be a lawyer.

  Frank Lampard

  School, Wanted

  "'If you could choose a super power what would it be?'". Interview With Freddie Greenan, www.theguardian.com. January 30, 2009.

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• Lawyers earn a living by the sweat of browbeating others.

  James Huneker

  Sweat

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• He saw a lawyer killing a viper on a dunghill hard by his own stable; And the Devil smiled, for it put him in mind of Cain and his brother Abel.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Brother, Mind, Devil

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1872). “Poetical Works of Samuel T. Coleridge”, p.88

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• "Lawyers Are": The only civil delinquents whose judges must of necessity be chosen from (amongst) themselves.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Judging, Chosen, Delinquents

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• "Lawyers Are": By law's dark by-ways he has stored his mind with wicked knowledge on how to cheat mankind.

  George Crabbe

  Dark, Law, Mind

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• They've got about as many lawyers as we have sumo-wrestlers.

  Lee Iacocca

  Wrestler

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• If I wanted to know what a certain future would feel like to me, I would find someone who is already living that future. If I wonder what it's like to become a lawyer or marry a busy executive or eat at a particular restaurant, my best bet is to find people who have actually done these things and see how happy they are.

  Daniel Gilbert

  People, Done, Wonder

  "Happiness: The elusive emotion". CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. November 20, 2006.

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• Lawyers are like beavers: They get in the mainstream and damn it up.

  John Naisbitt

  Mainstream, Beavers, Damn

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• From the law firm's perspective, billing by the hour has a certain appeal: it shifts risk from the firm to the client in case the work takes longer than expected. But from a client's perspective, it doesn't work so well. It gives lawyers an incentive to overstaff and to overresearch cases.

  Robert Pozen

  Law, Giving, Perspective

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• I told you all lawyers are worthless. After all it takes won (sic) to know one.

  Dan Quayle

  Knows, Worthless

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• "Lawyers Are": Perilous mouths.

  William Shakespeare

  Mouths

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• "Lawyers Are": Those whose interests and abilities lie in perverting, confounding and eluding the law.

  Jonathan Swift

  Lying, Law, Ability

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• The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

  Raymond Chandler

  Law, Kind, Fellows

  Raymond Chandler (2002). “The Long Goodbye: A Novel”, p.118, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• As a lawyer, as a private citizen, you see a lot of injustice.

  David Baldacci

  Citizens, Injustice, Vindicated

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• In a democracy - even if it is a so-called democracy like our white-?litist one - the greatest veneration one can show the rule of law is to keep a watch on it, and to reserve the right to judge unjust laws and the subversion of the function of the law by the power of the state. That vigilance is the most important proof of respect for the law.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Law, White, Judging

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• Laws teach us to know when we commit injury and when we suffer it.

  Samuel Johnson

  Law, Suffering, Injury

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Murphy's Essay”, p.611

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• I'd be bored to death if I spent all my time with other businesspeople, bankers and lawyers.

  Eli Broad

  Bored, Bankers, My Time

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• I say, break the law.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Law, Morality, Break

  Civil Disobedience (1849) See Savio 1

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• Those laws, being forged for universal application, are in perpetual conflict with personal interest, just as personal interest is always in contradiction with the general interest. Good for society, our laws are very bad for the individuals whereof it is composed; for, if they one time protect the individual, they hinder, trouble, fetter him for three quarters of his life.

  Marquis de Sade

  Law, Three, Conflict

  "Justine, Philosophy in the Bedroom, and Other Writings". Book by Marquis de Sade, December 1, 2007.

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